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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781617752339 (pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
UG |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3564 U48 N85 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Nunez, Elizabeth |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Not for everyday use: |
| Remainder of title |
A memoir / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Elizabeth Nunez. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York, N.Y. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Akashic Bks., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
256 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Tracing the four days from the moment she gets the call that every immigrant fears to the burial of her mother, Elizabeth Nunez tells the haunting story of her lifelong struggle to cope with the consequences of the "sterner stuff" of her parents' ambitions for their children and her mother's seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use. But Nunez sympathizes with her parents, whose happiness is constrained by the oppressive strictures of colonialism, by the Catholic Church's prohibition of artificial birth control which her mother obeys, terrified by the threat of eternal damnation (her mother gets pregnant fourteen times: nine live births and five miscarriages which almost kill her), and by what Malcolm Gladwell refers to as the "privilege of skin color" in his mother's Caribbean island homeland where "the brown-skinned classes...came to fetishize their lightness." Still, a fierce love holds this family together, and the passionate, though complex, love Nunez's parents have for each other will remind readers of the passion between the aging lovers in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. Written in exquisite prose by a writer the New York Times Book Review calls "a master at pacing and plotting," Not for Everyday Use is a page-turner that readers will find impossible to put down |
| 541 ## - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
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| Donor |
Eslyn V. Aiyeola |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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Nunez, Elizabeth |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African American novelists |
| Form subdivision |
Biography |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
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African American novelists |
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Biography |
| Chronological subdivision |
21st century. |
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College teachers |
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Biography. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Immigrants |
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Biography |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Trinidadian Americans |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Racism |
| Form subdivision |
United States. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Entry Department |
TSDA |
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| Acquisition - Verified |
SJM/KC/KP |
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LH |